North America?) Ci/jjerace-a. 419 
128. C. FOLLicuLATA, Lhin. sp. 4. no. 13S7 ; Riidge, 
ill Linn, trans. 7, p. 98, t. 9. /. 4 ; Gratj ! in ann. hjc. nat. 
hist. Niiii:-YorTc, 4. p. 235, not o( Schkuhr, JP^ald., &c. 
C. rostrara, Mkhx. ! fl. 2. p. 173. 
C. foliiculata, J. xanthojihysa, MuJd. ! gram. p. 244. 
C. xanthophysa, Waul. car. no. 73 ; Schw. S^' Torr. ! car. I. c. p. 
329, &c. 
Hab. British America ! to S. Carolina. For remarks 
upon this species see Gray, in the Annals of the Lyceum, 3. 
p. 235. 
The C.foUicnlata of Elhott is certainly not C. intnmescens ; 
but his description does not agree in every respect with the 
genuine species. 
129. C. suBUL ATA, Mlchx. ! fi. 2. p. 173 ; Schw. ^ Torr. ! 
car. I. c. p. 340. t. £7. f. 1. 
C. ColUnsii, Null. gen. 2. p. 23S. 
C. 3IichauxiI, Dewey ! car. I. c 10. p. 27. 
Hab. Canada, MicJiaux ; and cedar swamps of New 
Jersey ! 
130. Carex turgescens. 
Fertile spikes about 3, few-flowered, distant ; the uppermost 
nearly sessile at the base of the elongated, short-pedunculate 
staminate spike ; the second on a nearly included peduncle ; 
the lowest remote, very long peduncled ; fruit expanding hori- 
zontally ; perigynium ovate, conspicuously and evenly marked 
with numerous salient striae, acuminated into a slender straight 
beak, with a bifid orifice, about twice the length of the ovate 
scale ; leaves and sheaths minutely scabrous. 
C. foliiculata, Elliott, si: 2. p. 545 ? 
Culm 2 — 3 feet high, slender, and, with the leaves and sheath?!, striate 
and minutely puncticulate. Catiline leaves linear, narrow, shorter than 
the culm. FertiU spikes 8 — 14-flowered ; the uppermost nearly sessile 
